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The archive.
Every article we've published. In-depth dives across AI, hardware, and the edges where they meet.
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The Shift to a Native UI
For most of Poindexter's life, we didn't really have a UI. We had a stack of adjacent tools: Grafana dashboards for metrics, a Discord bot…
The Timeout That Fired in Zero Milliseconds
The tell was buried in a GlitchTip stack trace: Timeout passed=90.0, time taken=0.001 seconds. A timeout that fires in a millisecond isn't…
Why First-Party Content Strategy Is the Only One Left Standing
For years, content strategy meant the same ritual: open a keyword tool, sort by volume, write toward whatever the tool told you people were…
The Scorer Was Silently Dropping Half Its Shot Scores
Two alerts fired on the same post -- herorenderfallback on shots 4 and 8, visionscorerunavailable on 5 of 12 shots -- and pulling that…
The Trap Nobody Notices Until Output Breaks
AI copilots produce things fast. Dashboards get built in minutes. Pull requests merge cleanly. Everything looks done. That speed is the…
The Probe That Deployed Dead
Today's most humbling shipment was a fix for a fix. brain/clockskewprobe.py landed in (PR #2212) to catch something real:…
Speculative decoding for local LLM inference: how a small draft model accelerates a large one without changing outputs
If you've been running models locally, you already know the drill. Every token an LLM produces requires a full forward pass through every…
The Zombie That Wasn't RUNNING
Content generation went dark for roughly two hours before anyone noticed -- 02:31 to 04:57, per the audit log -- and the worker looked…
Self-healing, silent failures, and the "dead, not inert" bug
The firefighter we shipped in PR #2124 ran dead, not inert on prod. We'd built a deterministic self-healing loop--detect → act → verify →…
SVG crashes, Loki case-sensitivity, and the fight for an authoritative prompt catalog
We spent a good chunk of today chasing "ghost" errors in the console, starting with the Sparkline emitted invalid SVG path on empty data…